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..."Evergreen"?It's IMHO one of there best releases period!
It didn't sell well and AMG gives only a 3 star rating but for the over 40 fan it's perfect. Ian comes across as surprisingly humble and introspective about how his career has unfolded. The songs are good lyricly and Seargents arangements better than ever. Great album missed by many I'm afraid.
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I've got this one and must say it's a good one. It was Echo & the Bunnymen's stab at a comeback of sorts in the 90's and unfortunately it did not do well. No radio airplay and nobody I know even bothered.Also check out a band called "Electrafixion". It's basically Echo & The Bunnymen transformed into an edgier sound. Here's what it says about them on UBL.com:
Guitarist Will Sergeant and singer Ian McCulloch formed Echo & the Bunnymen with bassist Les Pattinson in Liverpool in 1978. The group later replaced a drum machine with Trinidad-native Pete de Freitas, and became one of the most important British indie bands of the '80s. Ian McCulloch left for a solo career in 1988, and his debut album Candleland proved successful. Meanwhile, his former band imploded after 1990's Reverberation, recorded with a McCulloch imitator named Simon Burke.
In 1992, McCulloch's second solo album Mysterio flopped, and he reconciled with Sergeant two years later. Sergeant and McCulloch recruited bassist Leon de Sylva and drummer Tony McGuigan and toured England as Electrafixion. Crowds and the press approved of the group's groove-heavy update of Echo & the Bunnymen's moody, slightly psychedelic, indie-pop. In November 1994, Electrafixion released "Zephyr" on their Spacejunk label, and followed with the album Burned in late 1995. ~ John Bush, All Music Guide
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Holy Smoke!I have "Burned" but have never heard of "Zephyr".
Bunnymen make my top 5 favorite bands of that period. I'll search it out. Did you pick up their release from '01, "Flowers", I'd describe it in much the same way you describe "Evergreen", Ian really seems to have aged gracefully.A friend of mine absolutely swears by the Bunnymen album sans McCulloch, "Reverberation", have you heard it? I've not, but I'm really curious about it too. My friend claims that Will Sargeant never sounded better.
Related brush with greatness: Saw Bunnymen when they toured in support of Ocean Rain, me and a couple of friends had the bright idea to track the band down at their hotel the day of the show and see if they would come to the lobby and have a drink, we somehow got on the phone with McCulloch and he agreed to meet us for a drink. So we had a sandwich a couple of beers and shot the sh*t for an hour or so. I remember mentioning, feigning knowing what the hell I was talking about, that Ocean Rain was really good and that it sounded like the vocals were mixed higher than on previous Bunnymen albums...he liked that, half jokingly said something like "about time, don't you think". At one point some teenage girls 14 or 15 years old were hovering around, they knew who he was and worked up the nerve to approach the table, asked him for his autograph, and took a picture. They were absolutely thrilled. Asked us if we were in the band. :-) I was really surprised that their audience would have reached that age group. Too bad the girls couldn't see the show...age restricted club.
Ah, the memories of a mis-spent youth.
....I like "Evergreen" better over all.I also have Reverberation but can't get past the fact that Ian's not doing the vocal.
Last year I bought the new live release "Live in Liverpool", it's not bad though the ravages of time and smoking are quite apparent with Ian's vocals.
Something else I finally found was the non-Bunnymen side project that Ian & Will did in the mid 90's, Electrafixion. Under that name they did one album titled "Burned". It's pretty good but again I personally prefer "Evergreen".
Mark if you have time send me an e-mail at rivercityspclty@earthlink.net
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